The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-11-24
agricultural.
A BETTER VIEW.

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greater part of it is undue. A GER
tain amount Of failure is expected,
and sure to come in every pursuit
and every profession. We do not be-
lieve farmers, as a rule, are the least
successful, as compared to all other
classes of business men. 1t must be
remembered that fifty-one per cent.
of our people are engaged in agricul-
ture, and whilst the actual number of
failures may be greater than in other
pursuits, it is much less, as compared
with any other business, and actually
less as compared to failures in all
other pursuits combined. The ratio
Of failures, then is more apparent
than real Farmers must necessarily
furnish food supplies tor themselves
and the thirty millions of our people
who are not farmers. If this were all
their business might be made pros
porous in receiving the value of their
crops in the markets, but large
class Of non producers not only draw
their sustenance from farmers. but
speculate upon their ignorance and
lack OF business information by cheap
ening the products OF the farm and
increasing the price Of its purchases.
Farmers carry, III the largest meas
ure, the burdens OF trade, business
and expenses Of the government; to
bear them without stagger, under
general depression and good amount
of oppression, is more than human
strength can do. When the question
is asked, SIS there any money in farm
ing, let not the reply be sought in
the bad condition OF the farms and
seeming thriitlessness of the farmers,
but in the condition of trade and the
character of the government; these
are the results of farming and farm
ing is entitled to the credit of this
income even though it is turned to
the maintenance of homes outside OF
its border and to enterprise in which
farmers have no personal concern;
and the fault is not in the farm nor
in farming, but the ineilciency Of the
man who fails to manage. Tor himself,
the yields OF his labor. Farming pays.
but it does not always pay the farm
er; more frequently it pays the mer-
chant, the guano man, the railroads
and the professions. Farmers, as a
class, are not good business men, and
they ito not understand or trouble
themselves about the best means for
controlling their products. They
sell at the price offered them, and
buy at whatever expense they are
charged. If the farms of the South
are brought down to strict business
principles and conducted upon a sys-
TEN OF accounts, just as a merchant
conducts his merchandise small leaks
detected and stopped a wise system
Eof prudent economy adopted, the
farm made, first, to support itself and
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the balance Of its products made to
bring their full market value, farm
ing will pay in any section at the
South at ali accessible to market. In
every county in all this broad terri
tory, there are, at least, half dozen
men, who have steadily accumulated
money since the war; their success
demonstrates the truth OF our propo-
sition. II all the farms in the coun-
try adopt the methods proven to be
successful, what binders the result
from being uniform:
| Farmers make all the corn, wheat,
oats, nee, pork, beef poultry, honey,
syrup, butter, milk and eggs that thir-
ty millions Of people must ouy from
them il they are fed the same farms
produce cotton, wool, flax and silk
the non-producers must wear if they
are kept warm. The balance of the
world is compelled to buy your pro
ducts; why are you compelled to sell
If your business is well managed
Farmers must study business princi-
pies, practice business methods, GET
into condition to be the masters o.
their own affairs and then their true
relation to society will be established
recognized and felt, and, then, farm
ing will pay the farmer Soathga
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